In such a vast purgatory, the success rate of finding a wizard who is determined to escape is very small. Even with Vivienne's proud bat army and Hao Ren's advanced probes, it may be difficult to achieve the goal, so they are releasing those overwhelming Immediately after the "Sentinel", the next search plan began to be discussed. Lily still remembered the purpose of Baptiste's visit to Purgatory in the first place: "Is he going to the second floor of purgatory? Where is the second floor?"
After hearing Lily's words, Hao Ren raised his head and looked into the distance. No matter which direction he looked at, all he could see was a desolate and rotten land. There seemed to be no signs of "layering" in this space. Originally, when he heard that there was a second floor in Purgatory, he thought it was a structure like a tower, but now it seems that he really thought too much at that time.
"Underground," Vivienne gently tapped the ground with her toes, "There is another layer more than ten kilometers below our feet. The space there is very vast, almost another world."
Lily groaned, and opened her mouth for a long time before saying: "Why is it a hole again? Why do we have to dig into the ground every now and then?"
Heatherana immediately looked at Hao Ren suspiciously: "What do you mean by always digging into the ground? What do you usually do with Lady Vivian?"
"Don't worry, I won't sell her to Shanxi to dig coal," Hao Ren waved his hand casually, "And not to mention the coal boss, even the Saudi crown prince may not be able to bear her prodigal aura. Speaking of the purgatory second layer is a cave?"
"No," Vivienne shook her head, and then she had a troubled look on her face, as if she felt that her vocabulary was limited and it was difficult to explain to everyone what kind of structure was under this land, "I just heard some rumors, it is said that this land Below is a space almost as grand as the surface world, so huge that it is unbelievably huge, and it is definitely not something as simple as a 'cave'. However, no one has actually been to the depths of Purgatory, and the sayings about the second floor of Purgatory are basically The exploration team detected it through magic induction, but I don't know exactly what happened."
"That Baptiste probably knows. Otherwise, he wouldn't be so obsessed with the second floor of Purgatory," Nangong Wuyue said while making a snoring sound. "Do you know where the entrance to the second floor of Purgatory is?"
"I'm asking the bats to search separately. It is said that the entrances to the second floor of Purgatory are some very large cavities, surrounded by crater-like structures, which should be very eye-catching. If you can find these entrances and catch Baptiste at the same time. Better."
At this time, Nangong Sanba was looking around vigilantly. After searching around, he couldn't help asking: "Shouldn't there be a lot of monsters in this place? It's rumored that there are a lot of monsters dancing around, how can there be no ghosts?" can not see?"
"Isn't it good if you can't meet monsters?" Vivienne's lips curled up slightly, "There are indeed many monsters in Purgatory. But they are not everywhere. Occasionally, we do encounter such a relatively 'quiet' place. It must be lucky to come in and choose a place. I hope Baptiste has the same luck, as long as the guy doesn't die before we catch him."
As she spoke, she looked at Hao Ren again: "Can the probe scan a wider area? It's rare to come to Purgatory, and I want to learn more about this place. I have been curious about this place since before, but unfortunately I didn't have the conditions back then. , haven’t done any research.”
Hao Ren hummed, and began to give more instructions to the scattered probes through the data terminal.
After knowing the characteristics of the entrance to the second floor of Purgatory, he set a new goal for those probes: in addition to continuing to search for Baptiste's traces, he also looked for large cavities and crater terrain on the surface. Now the probe's search range is expanding rapidly. The holographic map displayed on the data terminal continues to extend, outlining a larger and larger range of landforms. These probes and Vivienne's swarm of bats chose different search directions to be as efficient as possible.
And at the same time. He also ordered some probes to fly upwards—he wanted to see the extent of the world from a high place.
The data terminal floated among the crowd, projecting a series of holographic images. The central image is from a probe that probes the outer layers of the atmosphere. On the screen, it can be seen that the probe has entered the thick and dense clouds in the high altitude, and the huge, dirty clouds like lead blocks are continuously pressed down. In the clouds, continuous small-scale discharges can also be seen. These discharges It is not lightning in the ordinary nature, but seems to be a chemical reaction, which oscillates and transmits at an extremely fast speed on the surface and inside of the "cloud block", turning the entire cloud block into a weird luminous body, and creates a strange phenomenon with the surrounding clouds. A connection like resonance.
The picture that came from this was like walking in a huge monster made of clouds, and the internal organs and flesh and blood of this monster were shimmering.
Hao Ren deliberately slowed the probe down. By observing the state of the clouds during this process, this may reveal the mystery of the ecological environment of Purgatory. Others were also attracted by these miraculous pictures and gathered together one after another. Lily poked her neck and looked at the large luminous clouds, showing a thoughtful look: "Could it be that the whole purgatory is illuminated by these lights?"
"It should be right, we can't see the sun on the surface, and the thickness of the clouds will completely block the sun's light - so the light from these clouds themselves illuminates the world," Hao Ren nodded slightly, "and this is a space Debris, and it's hard to say whether there are stars out there."
May asked curiously: "Where did the lightning in the clouds come from?"
Hao Ren poked at the data terminal, and the latter lazily said, "Don't poke, it's already been analyzed, it's microbes."
Hao Ren was a little surprised: "Microorganisms?"
"Weird ecosystem," said the data terminal, and opened a set of small images next to it, which showed the simulated graphics of the planet Purgatory: since there is no real scan result of the entire planet, the details are basically guesswork. But it looks like that. A part of the planet simulation map is cut away, showing a cross-section from the upper atmosphere to the surface. "Thick clouds cover the entire planet, without any gaps at all, just like a These clouds are full of microorganisms, at least hundreds of species, they feed on the organic dust floating up from the lower atmosphere, and emit light and heat by themselves. In fact, this is no longer a 'cloud', but a Huge, living pan-organisms. Although those microorganisms appear to be independent single-celled individuals, due to the special structure of the cloud, this machine tends to regard them as a loose and special multi-cellular organism: the void is vast, and the world is diverse , this biological form also exists.”
Except for the Hessiana trio who looked like they were listening to heaven, everyone else was stunned, and Lily couldn't help but look up at the boundless thick clouds in the sky: "It's as if the whole planet is covered by a super huge soft-bodied creature." Wrapped?"
Hao Ren couldn't help but glance at Nangong Wuyue when he heard Lily's words, and the latter immediately swayed and let out a grunt: "What are you looking at me for? I'm a soft body but I'm not a creature... No, I'm a creature but I'm not a soft body … It’s not right, I’m a mollusk now, but am I not that big?”
Hao Ren scratched his hair: "I can't help but think of slimes when I talk about soft creatures. If you go back, you can't study your talent points carefully, and change to an ultimate form other than slimes?"
Wuyue folded her arms: "Yes, isn't it the Pipi shrimp? It's three meters long!"
Hao Ren: "..."
In any case, Lily's description is indeed accurate. The entire planet of Purgatory is indeed surrounded by a giant organism. The entire cloud covering the planet is a creature in the form of a spherical membranous body, which provides light and heat for this world. , but compared to this unbelievable phenomenon, Hao Ren paid more attention to another matter: "What's outside the clouds?"
The data terminal accelerated the speed at which the probe rushed out of the atmosphere, and the clouds on the screen flashed and passed quickly, and soon the probe reached the end of the cloud, and everyone saw that it passed through a layer of extremely smooth, as if The milky white plane like a cloth, then rushed into the boundless darkness.
The probe slowed down and photographed the surrounding situation, only to see the boundless white plane extending out of its lens, smooth and continuous. If he hadn't known in advance that it was a cloud layer, Hao Ren might have mistakenly thought it was a snowfield.
Lily couldn't help being a little stunned: "... so beautiful!"
Vivienne squinted at her: "I really want to wrap something around my neck and then go up and run a couple of laps, right?"
Lily didn't think much at all: "Yes, yes!"
Obviously, this is the victory of the power of the ancestors.
The probe turned the camera to take pictures of the direction in which it came, and saw an obvious leak point on the smooth white "curtain", from which a large amount of mist and white tissue like fibers spewed out silently, but within a few seconds, this The leak was plugged.
"It's unbelievable... It's really a behavior unique to biological tissues," Hao Ren was dumbfounded. "How did it evolve into this?"
"In order to keep the planet's matter from leaking out," the terminal buzzed, "the probe just now penetrated a very tough layer of colloidal tissue, which may have been slowly condensed by the microbes in the cloud over tens of thousands of years. The outermost layer of the entire planet is such a pure white world, if you walk above the atmosphere, it should feel like walking on cotton candy."
May Youyou sighed: "I didn't expect this hell-like place to look so beautiful from space." (To be continued~^~)